There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.

N. P. Willis

Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, (January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867) was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister wrote under the name Fanny Fern

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